As we know, the Pantheon is now welcoming a new host, Joséphine Baker.
The distinguished personality joined the spirits of some eighty tall figures buried in the Pantheon since 1791.
Singular destiny for this building of which Louis XV laid the first stone in 1764!
The King of France honored a vow made twenty years earlier.
Seriously ill in Metz in 1744, he had sworn, if he escaped, to build a new church in honor of the patron saint of Paris, Sainte-Geneviève.
The architect Soufflot sweated blood and water on the site and exhausted himself in refuting the detractors of his choices, until he died of it in 1780. The church, in neoclassical style, was only completed by his collaborators at the beginning. of the Revolution, in 1790.
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Antiquity is then in favor.
The constituents read
The Lives of Illustrious Men
by Plutarch, a Roman historian of Greek origin.
Honor the exceptional men who have contributed to the greatness of France, offer them as an example to their compatriots
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